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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual the wise man wonders at the usual.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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